[SatNews] "The quick rescue would have not been possible without the use of ‘this service’,"

The 316-metre (1,037-ft) Mitsui OSK Line vessel, MOL Comfort, was 200 miles off Yemen en route to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia on 17 June when it suffered catastrophic hull failure. The Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Mumbai used Inmarsat to alert three vessels in the area. The officials said that the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre, Mumbai diverted three ships; MV Hanjin Bejing, MV Zim India and MV Yantian Express, which were travelling nearby, for the rescue operation.

A massive container vessel which snapped into two and sank off Yemen on Monday. Indian Coast Guard (ICG) Mumbai, coordinated operations to help rescue 26 sailors from the vessel. The tragedy occurred around 200 nautical miles from Yemen, and around 840 nautical miles west of Mumbai. PTI Photo

The Singapore-bound merchant vessel from Jeddah split into two around 840 nautical miles off the coast causing oil spill even as all the crew members were rescued, Coast Guard officials said. The rescued crew members are being sent to Colombo, they said.

"The vessel hull broke into two off the Mumbai coast and the crew members were rescued from the ship in two life rafts and a life boat," a Coast Guard official said.The Coast Guard coordinated the rescue operation and all the 26 members of the crew, 12 Russians and 14 Filipinos, were rescued.